A/N: Yadda Yadda, yeah yeah I'm sorry about not posting in so long, this chapter is probably crap, read, review, comment, like, share, post, whatever you do on this thing. Anyway enjoy...oh and give me ideas of love interest and tell me if you want a little time jump or not. Thanks
Chapter 5: At the Hospital with Stephanie and Bayley
"Hi i'm here to see Rebecca Lynch, my name is Stephanie Helmsley" Stephanie said to the receptionist behind the desk who was a nice blond lady with a pair of glasses and bright red lipstick.
"Oh little Rebecca, she is such a doll, really chipper for a girl in her situation" The lady said as she began typing into her computer, tilting her glasses ever so slightly as she paused to read"
"what do you mean situation?" Stephanie asked as her heart began to pick up
"Being in the hospital of course, but she is very lovely young lady. Can i ask your relation?"
"I...I um…"
"Stephanie!" Came a voice from the hall causing both Stephanie and her daughter to turn and see a tall woman walking towards them, dressed in a black and white pantsuit and heels about three inches high, "You're finally here. How was the flight? Did you eat breakfast yet, oh it doesn't matter we'll get you something to eat. Oh, I haven't told Rebecca you were coming yet, I thought it could be a cute little surprise. Where's Hunter?"
Finally pausing to look around the woman who was talking a mile a second finally spotted Bayley who was cowering slightly behind her mother at the loud women who towards over her and her mother, "Who is this little thing?"
"This is Bayley, my youngest, she is taking Hunter's place while he stays back and watches the other two" Stephanie reached behind her and pulled Bayley into her slightly causing the girl to hug her mother's leg and lean against her to look up at this women, "Babygirl this is ms. Sable, she's the social worker who is helping me adopt Rebecca, she travels around a lot and works all over the world helping children find homes."
"Hi Bayley" Sable said politely as she bent slightly down and reached her hand out for the young girl to shake
Bayley looked at the hand then up at her mother before she took Sable's hand and shook it with a small smile.
"Oh back to you Stephanie you are actually here right on time, Rebecca's is scheduled for surgery today and I was able to get it pushed back as safe as possible in order to give you enough time to get here and see her first" Sable said happily as she turned her focus back to the younger woman.
"Surgery? What kind of surgery?"
"I don't know all the details just yet but her doctor is in there with her now. She is just back this way, the last room to the left, I'll show you to her" With that Stephanie and Bayley followed this tall blond down towards the room, Bayley walking closely into her mother as she looked around at the signs and pictures along the halls.
Once they reached the door of the room the two adults looked in to see two doctors and a nurse standing around before they stopped while Bayley ignored them and walked right in bouncing on her toes. Stephanie went to hold her back but Sable waved it off and laughed before ushering her inside as well.
It was a double room made to hold two patients and their families with a long, green curtain separating the bed like a wall but only Rebecca was in it. There were two chairs sitting on the side of the bed and a small TV was hanging on the wall playing some show with the sound off. Rebecca was sitting up in the bed closest to the door, there were three tubes were sticking out of her, one in each of her arms and one protruding out of the side of her chest and an oxygen mask was placed on her face. She had what looked like an eye patch over her left eye from what Stephanie figured was from the damage to her eye socket and a nurse was changing her IV but stopped as Bayley walked up beside the hospital bed and began talking to Rebecca.
"Hi Becky...can I call you Becky, I can't really pronounce Reb-Rebec...your name, but my name is Bayley, I'm your new sister. Well one of them, there's also Sasha and Charlotte but you'll meet them when we get back. I'm so excited!" Bayley began talking quickly, slightly frightening both the nurse and Rebecca who instantly went to take off her oxygen mask but was stopped by the nurse.
"You can't take that off yet Rebecca, you have to have it on for an hour before you can take it off again, you know that" The nurse said, removing the orange haired girl's hands from the mask only to cause the girl to motion in shock to Bayley, "Yes I see you have a visitor, a young one at that...hi sweetie how are you?"
"Good"
"Mrs. Brown, Rebecca, this is Bayley...as she said, and this is Stephanie" Sable said causing Rebecca's eyes to widen at Stephanie before she went once again to remove her mask, but was stopped, "She's the woman who is adopting our little firecracker here"
They stood in silence for a moment Stephanie's eyes locking with the orange haired girl and all of Stephanie's nerves disappeared. She could sense the young girl's recognition of her and she felt pure joy at the thought that Rebecca would remember her. She didn't seem angry with her or at all mad that it had taken so long for this woman to adopt her or even call her again. No, she seemed happy to see her at all and Stephanie calmed at this.
"Hi Rebecca" She received a small wave in response, "You remember me right?"
Rebecca nodded and clenched her hands around the blanket that laid over her as she fidgeted nervously.
"Do you remember the promise I made you?" Rebecca nodded and turned away from Stephanie and looked towards the curtains instead, making Stephanie a little nervous, "Well I told you I was going to do everything in my power to adopt you...and well I have"
Rebecca's eyes snapped quickly over to Stephanie and Bayley bounced happily looking between her mother and her new big sister, "You're our new sister!"
This caused the adults to laugh a little at the young girl before Stephanie finally found her voice and began to speak.
"Yes, I just have to sign a couple more papers today and then as soon as the doctors release you, you can come home with us" Stephanie said with a smile as she watched Rebecca's eyes light up and it looked like she was laughing under her oxygen mask.
"Isn't that exciting Rebecca?" Sable said before turning to Stephanie, "I actually have those paper, we can go get them signed and get you guys squared away. Then I'll introduce you to the doctors so you can find out what's going on"
"Oh I'll go get the doctor for you" Nurse Brown said before giving a look towards Rebecca and saying, "you only have about five minutes left with your oxygen mask on, so once the timer goes off you can take it off alright" Rebecca nodded and looked back to Stephanie
Stephanie nodded reluctantly to what Sable had offered as she remembered that they were still in the hospital and she had no real idea of what was going on with her newest daughter and she didn't even know if the doctors would let her come home with them. The whole idea of coming was to get information and hopefully bring the girl back but it was never guaranteed. Still Stephanie took a step forward and grabbed Rebecca's hand, giving it a little squeeze before she followed Sable out of the room leaving Bayley and Rebecca to themselves.
"So I drew you a bunch of pictures, well I drew most of them but Charlotte helped me with some" Bayley all but shouted at the girl barely able to contain her excitement as she hopped up on the bed beside her new sister and began rooting through her bag for some of the pictures she drew. Once she found them she splayed them out on the bed for the older girl to see, "Charlotte helped me draw this one, it's our house and daddy and all of us...see that's you...well your hair is a little brighter than in the picture….my orange crayon broke...sorry"
Rebecca didn't respond, with the mask still over her face she just smiled and looked over all the pictures. She had no idea how this girl had yet to ask about any of her injuries or point out how silly her eyepatch looked but she went on ignoring it. Rebecca pointed to the blond stick figure in the picture she was talking about with a raised eyebrow.
"That one is Charlotte, she's really nice to me, she's just like mommy though, she's all adulty….but other than that she's cool" Rebecca nodded at this before moving to the taller brown haired girl with pink streaks in her hair, " That one is Sasha, she doesn't actually have pink hair but she keeps saying she wants to dye it. She's okay, she can be really mean because she never lets me play with her and Charlotte. You're going to let me play with you once you come back with us right...we can play a game now even"
Rebecca's eyes scanned over this little girl who she guesses is her younger sister now, the girl seems….crazy. Well maybe crazy wasn't the right word for her energy, but Rebecca couldn't describe it she had never been around someone like Bayley. She had grown up in a poor family that abandoned her and left her on the streets of Dublin to fend for herself when she was about three. She grew up fighting in order to stay alive but eventually when she was five , a police officer caught her trying to steal a piece of bread and turned her over to social services.
She had been in the system ever since and had only met Stephanie and Hunter she believed was her husband's name, when she was six and again when she was seven. The last of the two visits between them lasted the longest and was the happiest moment of Rebecca's life, especially when Stephanie promised to adopt the girl.
"Well I actually didn't bring any games but I have some extra crayons and paper, we can draw….do you like to draw?" Rebecca shrugged but nodded shortly after causing Bayley's smile to nearly double in size, if that was possible, "Here you go"
The two sat in silence and drew their respective pictures, both taking time to look at each other's work before continuing to draw theirs. After a few minutes a timer began to beep causing both girls to jump a little before a different nurse came in and turned it off. She moved towards Rebecca and smiled sweetly at Bayley as she reached over to help take Rebecca's oxygen mask off.
"There you go Rebecca, you're all done. Ms. Sable said that she and your mother will be back in a couple minutes" The nurse said and Rebecca couldn't help but smile at the word mother when it can out, "Do you need anything else...either of you?"
"No thanks" They both said causing the nurse to nod and exit the room
"Thank you Bayley" Came a thick Irish accent causing Bayley to look up at her older sister with a confused look.
"For what?"
"For the drawings, it's pretty boring in here" Rebecca and Bayley both took a moment to look around the room before she started again, "Stephanie told me about you, all of you...not a lot but…"
Bayley nodded as the orange haired girl trailed off causing them both to laugh for a bit before it drifted off into comfortable silence. This didn't last long before Bayley jumped up with excitement as she finished her drawing, "See I'm getting really good at these...um how do you saw it..Lep..Lephra.."
"Did you draw a Leprechaun?" Bayley nodded with excitement, "Why?"
Bayley stopped bouncing on the bed and looked at her sister confused, "What do you mean...because you guys have Lepre..these things.. here right? Charlotte said they were Irish and you're Irish"
"Yeah but I've never seen a Leprechaun here before...I don't think they're real" Becky said without thinking and went to say more but stopped as she looked over at Bayley to see her with tears welling up in her eyes and a look of shock on her face, "Wait I mean...I don't actually..I-I…"
"There's no such thing as leprechauns?"
"No there-there is I just…." Becky paused for a second before she quickly thought, "Can I tell you a secret"
"A secret?"
"Yeah….uh Leprechauns do exist, but it's a secret...so you can't tell anyone...okay?"
Bayley's eyes widened and her tears dried as she smiled and nodded wildly at Becky. She went to hug her but stopped as she remembered the tubes that stuck out the other side of her chest. Becky smiled just as a tall man with brownish-red hair came bouncing in with a clipboard in hand and Stephanie and Ms. Sable trailing behind him.
"Hello Rebecca, how are you feeling?" The man asked as he walked up to the side of the hospital bed
"I'm fine can I go home with them today?" Becky asked eagerly as she motioned toward Bayley and her new mother.
"well that depends on how today goes. You still have a surgery to do" The doctor flopped through the papers that were stuck to the clipboard in his hand.
Becky sat up quickly trying to argue but only a groan of pain came out of her mouth as she moved to violently.
"Are you ok?" Stephanie asked with concern as she moved closer to the young girl while Sable ushered the girl to lay back down.
"I'm fine...my chest hurts a little bit...but I don't know" She responded in a small voice as she looked over at her new mother still taking in the fact that Stephanie had actually kept her word and was adopting her.
"Yes well part of your rib was broken so some chest pain is normal but we are going to take some more x-rays here in a minute and then we'll send you off to surgery"
"I don't really need surgery do I ?" Rebbeca questioned as she tried to sit up, again, too quickly, almost knocking Bayley off the bed
"Might, most of the time broken ribs heal on their own but from your constant chest pains it could be more serious, but we'll see" He said with the nod of his head, "And how does your eye feel?"
Rebecca's shrugged and reached up to touch her eyepatch, "Fine I guess"
"Well your eye socket is damaged" He turned to Sable and Stephanie tl explain more, "She has a orbital rim fracture, a zygomatic fracture to be exact it involves the lower edge of the eye rim, which is part of the cheekbone. The swelling should go away in about a week and the fracture is small so she shouldn't need any surgery on that, but we'll just check when we check her ribs as well"
"So she has to wear that eyepatch for a while though?" Stephanie asked as she looked to she Bayley staring at it in fascination
The doctor smiled at her before turning to Stephanie, " Yes when her eye will be very sensitive to light and it will hurt to look in certain directions so it's for the best that she does."
Stephanie nodded at this before the doctor continued, "I've already talked with you and I heard that Ms. Sable has given you all the papers to adopt our firecracker. So once we get through all of this we'll be releasing Rebecca into your care"
Stephanie nodded at this with a smile and a small sigh of relief at the thought of the young girl coming back with her soon. She wanted to hurry and get her back so she and her girls could just lie on the couch and cuddle.
"Oooo this is so exciting" Sable said with a small squeal causing everyone to laugh and the room's tension to slowly fade
"Yes very...now Rebecca we'll be taking you go get your X-rays done and we'll have you back as soon as possible" The doctor said in a confident voice as two male nurses came into the room to help wheel the girl's bed out of the room.
"Don't worry Rebecca's we'll be right here when you get back" Stephanie said giving a small smile just as the young child was rolled past her and out of the room.
"well I will leave you two to talk...if you need anything give me a call and I come right over" Sable said with a laugh before exiting out of the room behind the doctor and nurses leaving just Bayley and her mother.
"Can we call daddy and tell him we saw Becky?" Bayley asked as she watched her mother stand paralyzed, for the second time today, in the same spot staring at where Rebecca had been wheeled by.
"..." she got no response so the girl walked up to her mom and tugged hard on her hand before calling her name once more, this time getting the woman's attention, "What did you say baby girl?"
"I said that we should call daddy now"
"Right yeah let's do that"
A/N: It was crap right? Let me know.